1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2menu "Kernel hacking" 3 4menu "printk and dmesg options" 5 6config PRINTK_TIME 7 bool "Show timing information on printks" 8 depends on PRINTK 9 help 10 Selecting this option causes time stamps of the printk() 11 messages to be added to the output of the syslog() system 12 call and at the console. 13 14 The timestamp is always recorded internally, and exported 15 to /dev/kmsg. This flag just specifies if the timestamp should 16 be included, not that the timestamp is recorded. 17 18 The behavior is also controlled by the kernel command line 19 parameter printk.time=1. See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst 20 21config PRINTK_CALLER 22 bool "Show caller information on printks" 23 depends on PRINTK 24 help 25 Selecting this option causes printk() to add a caller "thread id" (if 26 in task context) or a caller "processor id" (if not in task context) 27 to every message. 28 29 This option is intended for environments where multiple threads 30 concurrently call printk() for many times, for it is difficult to 31 interpret without knowing where these lines (or sometimes individual 32 line which was divided into multiple lines due to race) came from. 33 34 Since toggling after boot makes the code racy, currently there is 35 no option to enable/disable at the kernel command line parameter or 36 sysfs interface. 37 38config STACKTRACE_BUILD_ID 39 bool "Show build ID information in stacktraces" 40 depends on PRINTK 41 help 42 Selecting this option adds build ID information for symbols in 43 stacktraces printed with the printk format '%p[SR]b'. 44 45 This option is intended for distros where debuginfo is not easily 46 accessible but can be downloaded given the build ID of the vmlinux or 47 kernel module where the function is located. 48 49config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 50 int "Default console loglevel (1-15)" 51 range 1 15 52 default "7" 53 help 54 Default loglevel to determine what will be printed on the console. 55 56 Setting a default here is equivalent to passing in loglevel=<x> in 57 the kernel bootargs. loglevel=<x> continues to override whatever 58 value is specified here as well. 59 60 Note: This does not affect the log level of un-prefixed printk() 61 usage in the kernel. That is controlled by the MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 62 option. 63 64config CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET 65 int "quiet console loglevel (1-15)" 66 range 1 15 67 default "4" 68 help 69 loglevel to use when "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline. 70 71 When "quiet" is passed on the kernel commandline this loglevel 72 will be used as the loglevel. IOW passing "quiet" will be the 73 equivalent of passing "loglevel=<CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET>" 74 75config MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT 76 int "Default message log level (1-7)" 77 range 1 7 78 default "4" 79 help 80 Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority. 81 82 This was hard-coded to KERN_WARNING since at least 2.6.10 but folks 83 that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower 84 priority. 85 86 Note: This does not affect what message level gets printed on the console 87 by default. To change that, use loglevel=<x> in the kernel bootargs, 88 or pick a different CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT configuration value. 89 90config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY 91 bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" 92 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY 93 help 94 This build option allows you to read kernel boot messages 95 by inserting a short delay after each one. The delay is 96 specified in milliseconds on the kernel command line, 97 using "boot_delay=N". 98 99 It is likely that you would also need to use "lpj=M" to preset 100 the "loops per jiffie" value. 101 See a previous boot log for the "lpj" value to use for your 102 system, and then set "lpj=M" before setting "boot_delay=N". 103 NOTE: Using this option may adversely affect SMP systems. 104 I.e., processors other than the first one may not boot up. 105 BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY also may cause LOCKUP_DETECTOR to detect 106 what it believes to be lockup conditions. 107 108config DYNAMIC_DEBUG 109 bool "Enable dynamic printk() support" 110 default n 111 depends on PRINTK 112 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 113 select DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 114 help 115 116 Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not 117 otherwise be available at runtime. These messages can then be 118 enabled/disabled based on various levels of scope - per source file, 119 function, module, format string, and line number. This mechanism 120 implicitly compiles in all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls, which 121 enlarges the kernel text size by about 2%. 122 123 If a source file is compiled with DEBUG flag set, any 124 pr_debug() calls in it are enabled by default, but can be 125 disabled at runtime as below. Note that DEBUG flag is 126 turned on by many CONFIG_*DEBUG* options. 127 128 Usage: 129 130 Dynamic debugging is controlled via the 'dynamic_debug/control' file, 131 which is contained in the 'debugfs' filesystem or procfs. 132 Thus, the debugfs or procfs filesystem must first be mounted before 133 making use of this feature. 134 We refer the control file as: <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control. This 135 file contains a list of the debug statements that can be enabled. The 136 format for each line of the file is: 137 138 filename:lineno [module]function flags format 139 140 filename : source file of the debug statement 141 lineno : line number of the debug statement 142 module : module that contains the debug statement 143 function : function that contains the debug statement 144 flags : '=p' means the line is turned 'on' for printing 145 format : the format used for the debug statement 146 147 From a live system: 148 149 nullarbor:~ # cat <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 150 # filename:lineno [module]function flags format 151 fs/aio.c:222 [aio]__put_ioctx =_ "__put_ioctx:\040freeing\040%p\012" 152 fs/aio.c:248 [aio]ioctx_alloc =_ "ENOMEM:\040nr_events\040too\040high\012" 153 fs/aio.c:1770 [aio]sys_io_cancel =_ "calling\040cancel\012" 154 155 Example usage: 156 157 // enable the message at line 1603 of file svcsock.c 158 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > 159 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 160 161 // enable all the messages in file svcsock.c 162 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c +p' > 163 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 164 165 // enable all the messages in the NFS server module 166 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'module nfsd +p' > 167 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 168 169 // enable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 170 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process +p' > 171 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 172 173 // disable all 12 messages in the function svc_process() 174 nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'func svc_process -p' > 175 <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control 176 177 See Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for additional 178 information. 179 180config DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE 181 bool "Enable core function of dynamic debug support" 182 depends on PRINTK 183 depends on (DEBUG_FS || PROC_FS) 184 help 185 Enable core functional support of dynamic debug. It is useful 186 when you want to tie dynamic debug to your kernel modules with 187 DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for each of them, especially for 188 the case of embedded system where the kernel image size is 189 sensitive for people. 190 191config SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME 192 bool "Support symbolic error names in printf" 193 default y if PRINTK 194 help 195 If you say Y here, the kernel's printf implementation will 196 be able to print symbolic error names such as ENOSPC instead 197 of the number 28. It makes the kernel image slightly larger 198 (about 3KB), but can make the kernel logs easier to read. 199 200config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 201 bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERT 202 depends on BUG && (GENERIC_BUG || HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE) 203 default y 204 help 205 Say Y here to make BUG() panics output the file name and line number 206 of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace. This aids 207 debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory. 208 209endmenu # "printk and dmesg options" 210 211config DEBUG_KERNEL 212 bool "Kernel debugging" 213 help 214 Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and 215 identify kernel problems. 216 217config DEBUG_MISC 218 bool "Miscellaneous debug code" 219 default DEBUG_KERNEL 220 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 221 help 222 Say Y here if you need to enable miscellaneous debug code that should 223 be under a more specific debug option but isn't. 224 225menu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" 226 227config DEBUG_INFO 228 bool 229 help 230 A kernel debug info option other than "None" has been selected 231 in the "Debug information" choice below, indicating that debug 232 information will be generated for build targets. 233 234choice 235 prompt "Debug information" 236 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 237 help 238 Selecting something other than "None" results in a kernel image 239 that will include debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image. 240 This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and 241 is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object 242 tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel. 243 244 Choose which version of DWARF debug info to emit. If unsure, 245 select "Toolchain default". 246 247config DEBUG_INFO_NONE 248 bool "Disable debug information" 249 help 250 Do not build the kernel with debugging information, which will 251 result in a faster and smaller build. 252 253config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT 254 bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version" 255 select DEBUG_INFO 256 help 257 The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a 258 toolchain changes over time. 259 260 This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to 261 support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but 262 those should be less common scenarios. 263 264config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 265 bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo" 266 select DEBUG_INFO 267 help 268 Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+. 269 270 If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for 271 newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your 272 config select this. 273 274config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 275 bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" 276 select DEBUG_INFO 277 depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502))) 278 help 279 Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc 280 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some 281 draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. 282 283 Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around 284 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as 285 compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous 286 extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format 287 for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this 288 config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to 289 support DWARF Version 5. 290 291endchoice # "Debug information" 292 293if DEBUG_INFO 294 295config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 296 bool "Reduce debugging information" 297 help 298 If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging 299 information for structure types. This means that tools that 300 need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't 301 be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to 302 resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that 303 build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full 304 DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. 305 Only works with newer gcc versions. 306 307config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED 308 bool "Compressed debugging information" 309 depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) 310 depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) 311 help 312 Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang 313 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. 314 315 Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in 316 size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the 317 debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being 318 recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still 319 preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even 320 larger. 321 322config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT 323 bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" 324 depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf) 325 help 326 Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly 327 reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, 328 because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo 329 files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. 330 In addition the debug information is also compressed. 331 332 Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. 333 Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need 334 to know about the .dwo files and include them. 335 Incompatible with older versions of ccache. 336 337config DEBUG_INFO_BTF 338 bool "Generate BTF typeinfo" 339 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED 340 depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST 341 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 342 depends on !DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 || PAHOLE_VERSION >= 121 343 help 344 Generate deduplicated BTF type information from DWARF debug info. 345 Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert 346 DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info. 347 348config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 349 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119 350 351config PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG 352 def_bool PAHOLE_VERSION >= 123 353 depends on CC_IS_CLANG 354 help 355 Decide whether pahole emits btf_tag attributes (btf_type_tag and 356 btf_decl_tag) or not. Currently only clang compiler implements 357 these attributes, so make the config depend on CC_IS_CLANG. 358 359config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 360 def_bool y 361 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF 362 help 363 Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules. 364 365config MODULE_ALLOW_BTF_MISMATCH 366 bool "Allow loading modules with non-matching BTF type info" 367 depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES 368 help 369 For modules whose split BTF does not match vmlinux, load without 370 BTF rather than refusing to load. The default behavior with 371 module BTF enabled is to reject modules with such mismatches; 372 this option will still load module BTF where possible but ignore 373 it when a mismatch is found. 374 375config GDB_SCRIPTS 376 bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" 377 help 378 This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the 379 build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper 380 scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and 381 additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel 382 instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst 383 for further details. 384 385endif # DEBUG_INFO 386 387config FRAME_WARN 388 int "Warn for stack frames larger than" 389 range 0 8192 390 default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY 391 default 2048 if PARISC 392 default 1536 if (!64BIT && XTENSA) 393 default 1024 if !64BIT 394 default 2048 if 64BIT 395 help 396 Tell gcc to warn at build time for stack frames larger than this. 397 Setting this too low will cause a lot of warnings. 398 Setting it to 0 disables the warning. 399 400config STRIP_ASM_SYMS 401 bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link" 402 default n 403 help 404 Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols 405 that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of 406 get_wchan() and suchlike. 407 408config READABLE_ASM 409 bool "Generate readable assembler code" 410 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 411 depends on CC_IS_GCC 412 help 413 Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable 414 assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps 415 to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings 416 sane. 417 418config HEADERS_INSTALL 419 bool "Install uapi headers to usr/include" 420 depends on !UML 421 help 422 This option will install uapi headers (headers exported to user-space) 423 into the usr/include directory for use during the kernel build. 424 This is unneeded for building the kernel itself, but needed for some 425 user-space program samples. It is also needed by some features such 426 as uapi header sanity checks. 427 428config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH 429 bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" 430 depends on CC_IS_GCC 431 help 432 The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal 433 references from one section to another section. 434 During linktime or runtime, some sections are dropped; 435 any use of code/data previously in these sections would 436 most likely result in an oops. 437 In the code, functions and variables are annotated with 438 __init,, etc. (see the full list in include/linux/init.h), 439 which results in the code/data being placed in specific sections. 440 The section mismatch analysis is always performed after a full 441 kernel build, and enabling this option causes the following 442 additional step to occur: 443 - Add the option -fno-inline-functions-called-once to gcc commands. 444 When inlining a function annotated with __init in a non-init 445 function, we would lose the section information and thus 446 the analysis would not catch the illegal reference. 447 This option tells gcc to inline less (but it does result in 448 a larger kernel). 449 450config SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY 451 bool "Make section mismatch errors non-fatal" 452 default y 453 help 454 If you say N here, the build process will fail if there are any 455 section mismatch, instead of just throwing warnings. 456 457 If unsure, say Y. 458 459config DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B 460 bool "Force all function address 64B aligned" 461 depends on EXPERT && (X86_64 || ARM64 || PPC32 || PPC64 || ARC) 462 help 463 There are cases that a commit from one domain changes the function 464 address alignment of other domains, and cause magic performance 465 bump (regression or improvement). Enable this option will help to 466 verify if the bump is caused by function alignment changes, while 467 it will slightly increase the kernel size and affect icache usage. 468 469 It is mainly for debug and performance tuning use. 470 471# 472# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it 473# is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config 474# option on the architecture (regardless of KERNEL_DEBUG): 475# 476config ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 477 bool 478 479config FRAME_POINTER 480 bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" 481 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && (M68K || UML || SUPERH) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 482 default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS 483 help 484 If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly 485 larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information 486 in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) 487 488config OBJTOOL 489 bool 490 491config STACK_VALIDATION 492 bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation" 493 depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION && UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER 494 select OBJTOOL 495 default n 496 help 497 Validate frame pointer rules at compile-time. This helps ensure that 498 runtime stack traces are more reliable. 499 500 For more information, see 501 tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. 502 503config NOINSTR_VALIDATION 504 bool 505 depends on HAVE_NOINSTR_VALIDATION && DEBUG_ENTRY 506 select OBJTOOL 507 default y 508 509config VMLINUX_MAP 510 bool "Generate vmlinux.map file when linking" 511 depends on EXPERT 512 help 513 Selecting this option will pass "-Map=vmlinux.map" to ld 514 when linking vmlinux. That file can be useful for verifying 515 and debugging magic section games, and for seeing which 516 pieces of code get eliminated with 517 CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. 518 519config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU 520 bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions" 521 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 522 help 523 s390 and alpha require percpu variables in modules to be 524 defined weak to work around addressing range issue which 525 puts the following two restrictions on percpu variable 526 definitions. 527 528 1. percpu symbols must be unique whether static or not 529 2. percpu variables can't be defined inside a function 530 531 To ensure that generic code follows the above rules, this 532 option forces all percpu variables to be defined as weak. 533 534endmenu # "Compiler options" 535 536menu "Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments" 537 538config MAGIC_SYSRQ 539 bool "Magic SysRq key" 540 depends on !UML 541 help 542 If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even 543 if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you 544 will be able to flush the buffer cache to disk, reboot the system 545 immediately or dump some status information). This is accomplished 546 by pressing various keys while holding SysRq (Alt+PrintScreen). It 547 also works on a serial console (on PC hardware at least), if you 548 send a BREAK and then within 5 seconds a command keypress. The 549 keys are documented in <file:Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst>. 550 Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. 551 552config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 553 hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default" 554 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 555 default 0x1 556 help 557 Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default. 558 This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or 559 to a bitmask as described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst. 560 561config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 562 bool "Enable magic SysRq key over serial" 563 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ 564 default y 565 help 566 Many embedded boards have a disconnected TTL level serial which can 567 generate some garbage that can lead to spurious false sysrq detects. 568 This option allows you to decide whether you want to enable the 569 magic SysRq key. 570 571config MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL_SEQUENCE 572 string "Char sequence that enables magic SysRq over serial" 573 depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ_SERIAL 574 default "" 575 help 576 Specifies a sequence of characters that can follow BREAK to enable 577 SysRq on a serial console. 578 579 If unsure, leave an empty string and the option will not be enabled. 580 581config DEBUG_FS 582 bool "Debug Filesystem" 583 help 584 debugfs is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put 585 debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and 586 write to these files. 587 588 For detailed documentation on the debugfs API, see 589 Documentation/filesystems/. 590 591 If unsure, say N. 592 593choice 594 prompt "Debugfs default access" 595 depends on DEBUG_FS 596 default DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 597 help 598 This selects the default access restrictions for debugfs. 599 It can be overridden with kernel command line option 600 debugfs=[on,no-mount,off]. The restrictions apply for API access 601 and filesystem registration. 602 603config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_ALL 604 bool "Access normal" 605 help 606 No restrictions apply. Both API and filesystem registration 607 is on. This is the normal default operation. 608 609config DEBUG_FS_DISALLOW_MOUNT 610 bool "Do not register debugfs as filesystem" 611 help 612 The API is open but filesystem is not loaded. Clients can still do 613 their work and read with debug tools that do not need 614 debugfs filesystem. 615 616config DEBUG_FS_ALLOW_NONE 617 bool "No access" 618 help 619 Access is off. Clients get -PERM when trying to create nodes in 620 debugfs tree and debugfs is not registered as a filesystem. 621 Client can then back-off or continue without debugfs access. 622 623endchoice 624 625source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" 626source "lib/Kconfig.ubsan" 627source "lib/Kconfig.kcsan" 628 629endmenu 630 631menu "Networking Debugging" 632 633source "net/Kconfig.debug" 634 635endmenu # "Networking Debugging" 636 637menu "Memory Debugging" 638 639source "mm/Kconfig.debug" 640 641config DEBUG_OBJECTS 642 bool "Debug object operations" 643 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 644 help 645 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 646 kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate 647 the operations on those objects. 648 649config DEBUG_OBJECTS_SELFTEST 650 bool "Debug objects selftest" 651 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 652 help 653 This enables the selftest of the object debug code. 654 655config DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE 656 bool "Debug objects in freed memory" 657 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 658 help 659 This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area 660 which contains an object which has not been deactivated 661 properly. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads 662 much slower. 663 664config DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 665 bool "Debug timer objects" 666 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 667 help 668 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 669 timer routines to track the life time of timer objects and 670 validate the timer operations. 671 672config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK 673 bool "Debug work objects" 674 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 675 help 676 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 677 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 678 validate the work operations. 679 680config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD 681 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects" 682 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 683 help 684 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). 685 686config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER 687 bool "Debug percpu counter objects" 688 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 689 help 690 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 691 percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter 692 objects and validate the percpu counter operations. 693 694config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 695 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 696 range 0 1 697 default "1" 698 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS 699 help 700 Debug objects boot parameter default value 701 702config DEBUG_SLAB 703 bool "Debug slab memory allocations" 704 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB 705 help 706 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory 707 allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed 708 memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower. 709 710config SLUB_DEBUG_ON 711 bool "SLUB debugging on by default" 712 depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG 713 select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 714 default n 715 help 716 Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with 717 the runtime debug capabilities switched off. Enabling this is 718 equivalent to specifying the "slub_debug" parameter on boot. 719 There is no support for more fine grained debug control like 720 possible with slub_debug=xxx. SLUB debugging may be switched 721 off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying 722 "slub_debug=-". 723 724config SLUB_STATS 725 default n 726 bool "Enable SLUB performance statistics" 727 depends on SLUB && SYSFS 728 help 729 SLUB statistics are useful to debug SLUBs allocation behavior in 730 order find ways to optimize the allocator. This should never be 731 enabled for production use since keeping statistics slows down 732 the allocator by a few percentage points. The slabinfo command 733 supports the determination of the most active slabs to figure 734 out which slabs are relevant to a particular load. 735 Try running: slabinfo -DA 736 737config HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 738 bool 739 740config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 741 bool "Kernel memory leak detector" 742 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 743 select DEBUG_FS 744 select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 745 select KALLSYMS 746 select CRC32 747 help 748 Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak 749 detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way 750 similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the 751 difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but 752 only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this 753 feature will introduce an overhead to memory 754 allocations. See Documentation/dev-tools/kmemleak.rst for more 755 details. 756 757 Enabling DEBUG_SLAB or SLUB_DEBUG may increase the chances 758 of finding leaks due to the slab objects poisoning. 759 760 In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be 761 mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug). 762 763config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE 764 int "Kmemleak memory pool size" 765 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 766 range 200 1000000 767 default 16000 768 help 769 Kmemleak must track all the memory allocations to avoid 770 reporting false positives. Since memory may be allocated or 771 freed before kmemleak is fully initialised, use a static pool 772 of metadata objects to track such callbacks. After kmemleak is 773 fully initialised, this memory pool acts as an emergency one 774 if slab allocations fail. 775 776config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST 777 tristate "Simple test for the kernel memory leak detector" 778 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK && m 779 help 780 This option enables a module that explicitly leaks memory. 781 782 If unsure, say N. 783 784config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF 785 bool "Default kmemleak to off" 786 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 787 help 788 Say Y here to disable kmemleak by default. It can then be enabled 789 on the command line via kmemleak=on. 790 791config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_AUTO_SCAN 792 bool "Enable kmemleak auto scan thread on boot up" 793 default y 794 depends on DEBUG_KMEMLEAK 795 help 796 Depending on the cpu, kmemleak scan may be cpu intensive and can 797 stall user tasks at times. This option enables/disables automatic 798 kmemleak scan at boot up. 799 800 Say N here to disable kmemleak auto scan thread to stop automatic 801 scanning. Disabling this option disables automatic reporting of 802 memory leaks. 803 804 If unsure, say Y. 805 806config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE 807 bool "Stack utilization instrumentation" 808 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !IA64 809 help 810 Enables the display of the minimum amount of free stack which each 811 task has ever had available in the sysrq-T and sysrq-P debug output. 812 813 This option will slow down process creation somewhat. 814 815config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK 816 bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" 817 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 818 default n 819 help 820 This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). 821 If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as 822 the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. 823 This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in 824 data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region 825 is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. 826 827config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 828 bool 829 help 830 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 831 build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 832 833config DEBUG_VM 834 bool "Debug VM" 835 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 836 help 837 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the virtual-memory system 838 that may impact performance. 839 840 If unsure, say N. 841 842config DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE 843 bool "Debug VMA caching" 844 depends on DEBUG_VM 845 help 846 Enable this to turn on VMA caching debug information. Doing so 847 can cause significant overhead, so only enable it in non-production 848 environments. 849 850 If unsure, say N. 851 852config DEBUG_VM_RB 853 bool "Debug VM red-black trees" 854 depends on DEBUG_VM 855 help 856 Enable VM red-black tree debugging information and extra validations. 857 858 If unsure, say N. 859 860config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS 861 bool "Debug page-flags operations" 862 depends on DEBUG_VM 863 help 864 Enables extra validation on page flags operations. 865 866 If unsure, say N. 867 868config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 869 bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance" 870 depends on MMU 871 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE 872 default y if DEBUG_VM 873 help 874 This option provides a debug method which can be used to test 875 architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in 876 verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This 877 will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or 878 new additions of these helpers still conform to expected 879 semantics of the generic MM. Platforms will have to opt in for 880 this through ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. 881 882 If unsure, say N. 883 884config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 885 bool 886 887config DEBUG_VIRTUAL 888 bool "Debug VM translations" 889 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 890 help 891 Enable some costly sanity checks in virtual to page code. This can 892 catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends. 893 894 If unsure, say N. 895 896config DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS 897 bool "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" 898 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !MMU 899 help 900 This option causes the global tree of anonymous and private mapping 901 regions to be regularly checked for invalid topology. 902 903config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT 904 bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EXPERT 905 default !EXPERT 906 help 907 Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. 908 The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model 909 and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose 910 information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending 911 on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. 912 913 If unsure, say Y 914 915config MEMORY_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 916 tristate "Memory hotplug notifier error injection module" 917 depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 918 help 919 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 920 memory hotplug notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through 921 debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 922 923 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 924 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 925 926 Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM) 927 928 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory 929 # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error 930 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 931 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 932 933 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 934 be called memory-notifier-error-inject. 935 936 If unsure, say N. 937 938config DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 939 bool "Debug access to per_cpu maps" 940 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 941 depends on SMP 942 help 943 Say Y to verify that the per_cpu map being accessed has 944 been set up. This adds a fair amount of code to kernel memory 945 and decreases performance. 946 947 Say N if unsure. 948 949config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 950 bool "Debug kmap_local temporary mappings" 951 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KMAP_LOCAL 952 help 953 This option enables additional error checking for the kmap_local 954 infrastructure. Disable for production use. 955 956config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 957 bool 958 959config DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 960 bool "Enforce kmap_local temporary mappings" 961 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 962 select KMAP_LOCAL 963 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 964 help 965 This option enforces temporary mappings through the kmap_local 966 mechanism for non-highmem pages and on non-highmem systems. 967 Disable this for production systems! 968 969config DEBUG_HIGHMEM 970 bool "Highmem debugging" 971 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HIGHMEM 972 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP if ARCH_SUPPORTS_KMAP_LOCAL_FORCE_MAP 973 select DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL 974 help 975 This option enables additional error checking for high memory 976 systems. Disable for production systems. 977 978config HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 979 bool 980 981config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 982 bool "Check for stack overflows" 983 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW 984 help 985 Say Y here if you want to check for overflows of kernel, IRQ 986 and exception stacks (if your architecture uses them). This 987 option will show detailed messages if free stack space drops 988 below a certain limit. 989 990 These kinds of bugs usually occur when call-chains in the 991 kernel get too deep, especially when interrupts are 992 involved. 993 994 Use this in cases where you see apparently random memory 995 corruption, especially if it appears in 'struct thread_info' 996 997 If in doubt, say "N". 998 999source "lib/Kconfig.kasan" 1000source "lib/Kconfig.kfence" 1001 1002endmenu # "Memory Debugging" 1003 1004config DEBUG_SHIRQ 1005 bool "Debug shared IRQ handlers" 1006 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1007 help 1008 Enable this to generate a spurious interrupt just before a shared 1009 interrupt handler is deregistered (generating one when registering 1010 is currently disabled). Drivers need to handle this correctly. Some 1011 don't and need to be caught. 1012 1013menu "Debug Oops, Lockups and Hangs" 1014 1015config PANIC_ON_OOPS 1016 bool "Panic on Oops" 1017 help 1018 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic when it oopses. This 1019 has the same effect as setting oops=panic on the kernel command 1020 line. 1021 1022 This feature is useful to ensure that the kernel does not do 1023 anything erroneous after an oops which could result in data 1024 corruption or other issues. 1025 1026 Say N if unsure. 1027 1028config PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE 1029 int 1030 range 0 1 1031 default 0 if !PANIC_ON_OOPS 1032 default 1 if PANIC_ON_OOPS 1033 1034config PANIC_TIMEOUT 1035 int "panic timeout" 1036 default 0 1037 help 1038 Set the timeout value (in seconds) until a reboot occurs when 1039 the kernel panics. If n = 0, then we wait forever. A timeout 1040 value n > 0 will wait n seconds before rebooting, while a timeout 1041 value n < 0 will reboot immediately. 1042 1043config LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1044 bool 1045 1046config SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1047 bool "Detect Soft Lockups" 1048 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1049 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1050 help 1051 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1052 soft lockups. 1053 1054 Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1055 mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a 1056 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon 1057 detection and the system will stay locked up. 1058 1059config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1060 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Soft Lockups" 1061 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1062 help 1063 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups", 1064 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1065 mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh 1066 sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run. 1067 1068 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1069 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1070 lockup has been detected. This feature is useful for 1071 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1072 where a lockup must be resolved ASAP. 1073 1074 Say N if unsure. 1075 1076config BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1077 int 1078 depends on SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1079 range 0 1 1080 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1081 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC 1082 1083config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1084 bool 1085 select SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1086 1087# 1088# Enables a timestamp based low pass filter to compensate for perf based 1089# hard lockup detection which runs too fast due to turbo modes. 1090# 1091config HARDLOCKUP_CHECK_TIMESTAMP 1092 bool 1093 1094# 1095# arch/ can define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH to provide their own hard 1096# lockup detector rather than the perf based detector. 1097# 1098config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1099 bool "Detect Hard Lockups" 1100 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !S390 1101 depends on HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF || HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH 1102 select LOCKUP_DETECTOR 1103 select HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF if HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF 1104 help 1105 Say Y here to enable the kernel to act as a watchdog to detect 1106 hard lockups. 1107 1108 Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode 1109 for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a 1110 chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection 1111 and the system will stay locked up. 1112 1113config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1114 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups" 1115 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1116 help 1117 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups", 1118 which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel 1119 mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable 1120 using the watchdog_thresh sysctl). 1121 1122 Say N if unsure. 1123 1124config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC_VALUE 1125 int 1126 depends on HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1127 range 0 1 1128 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1129 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC 1130 1131config DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1132 bool "Detect Hung Tasks" 1133 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1134 default SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR 1135 help 1136 Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "hung tasks", 1137 which are bugs that cause the task to be stuck in 1138 uninterruptible "D" state indefinitely. 1139 1140 When a hung task is detected, the kernel will print the 1141 current stack trace (which you should report), but the 1142 task will stay in uninterruptible state. If lockdep is 1143 enabled then all held locks will also be reported. This 1144 feature has negligible overhead. 1145 1146config DEFAULT_HUNG_TASK_TIMEOUT 1147 int "Default timeout for hung task detection (in seconds)" 1148 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1149 default 120 1150 help 1151 This option controls the default timeout (in seconds) used 1152 to determine when a task has become non-responsive and should 1153 be considered hung. 1154 1155 It can be adjusted at runtime via the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs 1156 sysctl or by writing a value to 1157 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs. 1158 1159 A timeout of 0 disables the check. The default is two minutes. 1160 Keeping the default should be fine in most cases. 1161 1162config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1163 bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hung Tasks" 1164 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1165 help 1166 Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hung tasks", 1167 which are bugs that cause the kernel to leave a task stuck 1168 in uninterruptible "D" state. 1169 1170 The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout, 1171 to cause the system to reboot automatically after a 1172 hung task has been detected. This feature is useful for 1173 high-availability systems that have uptime guarantees and 1174 where a hung tasks must be resolved ASAP. 1175 1176 Say N if unsure. 1177 1178config BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC_VALUE 1179 int 1180 depends on DETECT_HUNG_TASK 1181 range 0 1 1182 default 0 if !BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1183 default 1 if BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC 1184 1185config WQ_WATCHDOG 1186 bool "Detect Workqueue Stalls" 1187 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1188 help 1189 Say Y here to enable stall detection on workqueues. If a 1190 worker pool doesn't make forward progress on a pending work 1191 item for over a given amount of time, 30s by default, a 1192 warning message is printed along with dump of workqueue 1193 state. This can be configured through kernel parameter 1194 "workqueue.watchdog_thresh" and its sysfs counterpart. 1195 1196config TEST_LOCKUP 1197 tristate "Test module to generate lockups" 1198 depends on m 1199 help 1200 This builds the "test_lockup" module that helps to make sure 1201 that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly. 1202 1203 Depending on module parameters it could emulate soft or hard 1204 lockup, "hung task", or locking arbitrary lock for a long time. 1205 Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods. 1206 1207 If unsure, say N. 1208 1209endmenu # "Debug lockups and hangs" 1210 1211menu "Scheduler Debugging" 1212 1213config SCHED_DEBUG 1214 bool "Collect scheduler debugging info" 1215 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1216 default y 1217 help 1218 If you say Y here, the /proc/sched_debug file will be provided 1219 that can help debug the scheduler. The runtime overhead of this 1220 option is minimal. 1221 1222config SCHED_INFO 1223 bool 1224 default n 1225 1226config SCHEDSTATS 1227 bool "Collect scheduler statistics" 1228 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS 1229 select SCHED_INFO 1230 help 1231 If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the 1232 scheduler and related routines to collect statistics about 1233 scheduler behavior and provide them in /proc/schedstat. These 1234 stats may be useful for both tuning and debugging the scheduler 1235 If you aren't debugging the scheduler or trying to tune a specific 1236 application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead 1237 this adds. 1238 1239endmenu 1240 1241config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING 1242 bool "Enable extra timekeeping sanity checking" 1243 help 1244 This option will enable additional timekeeping sanity checks 1245 which may be helpful when diagnosing issues where timekeeping 1246 problems are suspected. 1247 1248 This may include checks in the timekeeping hotpaths, so this 1249 option may have a (very small) performance impact to some 1250 workloads. 1251 1252 If unsure, say N. 1253 1254config DEBUG_PREEMPT 1255 bool "Debug preemptible kernel" 1256 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1257 default y 1258 help 1259 If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the 1260 commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings 1261 if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel 1262 will detect preemption count underflows. 1263 1264menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" 1265 1266config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1267 bool 1268 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 1269 default y 1270 1271config PROVE_LOCKING 1272 bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" 1273 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1274 select LOCKDEP 1275 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1276 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1277 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1278 select DEBUG_RWSEMS 1279 select DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1280 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1281 select PREEMPT_COUNT if !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1282 select TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1283 default n 1284 help 1285 This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking 1286 that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically 1287 correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and 1288 not yet triggered) combination of observed locking 1289 sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an 1290 arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a 1291 deadlock. 1292 1293 In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking 1294 related deadlocks before they actually occur. 1295 1296 The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a 1297 deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many 1298 participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed 1299 for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on 1300 timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible 1301 theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario 1302 is), it will be proven so and will immediately be 1303 reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that 1304 makes the deadlock theoretically possible). 1305 1306 If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as 1307 observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the 1308 kernel reports nothing. 1309 1310 NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes 1311 and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these 1312 different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and 1313 the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an 1314 arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants. 1315 1316 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst. 1317 1318config PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING 1319 bool "Enable raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting checks" 1320 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1321 default n 1322 help 1323 Enable the raw_spinlock vs. spinlock nesting checks which ensure 1324 that the lock nesting rules for PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels are 1325 not violated. 1326 1327 NOTE: There are known nesting problems. So if you enable this 1328 option expect lockdep splats until these problems have been fully 1329 addressed which is work in progress. This config switch allows to 1330 identify and analyze these problems. It will be removed and the 1331 check permanently enabled once the main issues have been fixed. 1332 1333 If unsure, select N. 1334 1335config LOCK_STAT 1336 bool "Lock usage statistics" 1337 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1338 select LOCKDEP 1339 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1340 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1341 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1342 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1343 default n 1344 help 1345 This feature enables tracking lock contention points 1346 1347 For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockstat.rst 1348 1349 This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", 1350 subcommand of perf. 1351 If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on 1352 CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. 1353 1354 CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. 1355 (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) 1356 1357config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES 1358 bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" 1359 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES 1360 help 1361 This allows rt mutex semantics violations and rt mutex related 1362 deadlocks (lockups) to be detected and reported automatically. 1363 1364config DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1365 bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks" 1366 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1367 select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK 1368 help 1369 Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization 1370 and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is 1371 best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock 1372 deadlocks are also debuggable. 1373 1374config DEBUG_MUTEXES 1375 bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks" 1376 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !PREEMPT_RT 1377 help 1378 This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and 1379 reported. 1380 1381config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 1382 bool "Wait/wound mutex debugging: Slowpath testing" 1383 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1384 select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1385 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1386 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1387 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if PREEMPT_RT 1388 help 1389 This feature enables slowpath testing for w/w mutex users by 1390 injecting additional -EDEADLK wound/backoff cases. Together with 1391 the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this 1392 will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the 1393 exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 1394 Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so 1395 it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, 1396 even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If 1397 you are a distro, do not. 1398 1399config DEBUG_RWSEMS 1400 bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks" 1401 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1402 help 1403 This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks 1404 and unlocks to be detected and reported. 1405 1406config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 1407 bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" 1408 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1409 select DEBUG_SPINLOCK 1410 select DEBUG_MUTEXES if !PREEMPT_RT 1411 select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES 1412 select LOCKDEP 1413 help 1414 This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock, 1415 mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the 1416 memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(), 1417 vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via 1418 spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock 1419 held during task exit. 1420 1421config LOCKDEP 1422 bool 1423 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT 1424 select STACKTRACE 1425 select KALLSYMS 1426 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1427 1428config LOCKDEP_SMALL 1429 bool 1430 1431config LOCKDEP_BITS 1432 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES" 1433 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1434 range 10 30 1435 default 15 1436 help 1437 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1438 1439config LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS 1440 int "Bitsize for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS" 1441 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1442 range 10 30 1443 default 16 1444 help 1445 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" message. 1446 1447config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_BITS 1448 int "Bitsize for MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES" 1449 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1450 range 10 30 1451 default 19 1452 help 1453 Try increasing this value if you hit "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message. 1454 1455config LOCKDEP_STACK_TRACE_HASH_BITS 1456 int "Bitsize for STACK_TRACE_HASH_SIZE" 1457 depends on LOCKDEP && !LOCKDEP_SMALL 1458 range 10 30 1459 default 14 1460 help 1461 Try increasing this value if you need large MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES. 1462 1463config LOCKDEP_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_BITS 1464 int "Bitsize for elements in circular_queue struct" 1465 depends on LOCKDEP 1466 range 10 30 1467 default 12 1468 help 1469 Try increasing this value if you hit "lockdep bfs error:-1" warning due to __cq_enqueue() failure. 1470 1471config DEBUG_LOCKDEP 1472 bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" 1473 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP 1474 select DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1475 help 1476 If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do 1477 additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price 1478 of more runtime overhead. 1479 1480config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP 1481 bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" 1482 select PREEMPT_COUNT 1483 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1484 depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT 1485 help 1486 If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very 1487 noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is 1488 held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled 1489 sections, inside an interrupt, etc... 1490 1491config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS 1492 bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" 1493 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1494 help 1495 Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during 1496 bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs 1497 are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable 1498 lock debugging then those bugs won't be detected of course.) 1499 The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, 1500 mutexes and rwsems. 1501 1502config LOCK_TORTURE_TEST 1503 tristate "torture tests for locking" 1504 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1505 select TORTURE_TEST 1506 help 1507 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1508 on kernel locking primitives. The kernel module may be built 1509 after the fact on the running kernel to be tested, if desired. 1510 1511 Say Y here if you want kernel locking-primitive torture tests 1512 to be built into the kernel. 1513 Say M if you want these torture tests to build as a module. 1514 Say N if you are unsure. 1515 1516config WW_MUTEX_SELFTEST 1517 tristate "Wait/wound mutex selftests" 1518 help 1519 This option provides a kernel module that runs tests on the 1520 on the struct ww_mutex locking API. 1521 1522 It is recommended to enable DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH in conjunction 1523 with this test harness. 1524 1525 Say M if you want these self tests to build as a module. 1526 Say N if you are unsure. 1527 1528config SCF_TORTURE_TEST 1529 tristate "torture tests for smp_call_function*()" 1530 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1531 select TORTURE_TEST 1532 help 1533 This option provides a kernel module that runs torture tests 1534 on the smp_call_function() family of primitives. The kernel 1535 module may be built after the fact on the running kernel to 1536 be tested, if desired. 1537 1538config CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG 1539 bool "Debugging for csd_lock_wait(), called from smp_call_function*()" 1540 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1541 depends on 64BIT 1542 default n 1543 help 1544 This option enables debug prints when CPUs are slow to respond 1545 to the smp_call_function*() IPI wrappers. These debug prints 1546 include the IPI handler function currently executing (if any) 1547 and relevant stack traces. 1548 1549choice 1550 prompt "Lock debugging: prove subsystem device_lock() correctness" 1551 depends on PROVE_LOCKING 1552 help 1553 For subsystems that have instrumented their usage of the device_lock() 1554 with nested annotations, enable lock dependency checking. The locking 1555 hierarchy 'subclass' identifiers are not compatible across 1556 sub-systems, so only one can be enabled at a time. 1557 1558config PROVE_NVDIMM_LOCKING 1559 bool "NVDIMM" 1560 depends on LIBNVDIMM 1561 help 1562 Enable lockdep to validate nd_device_lock() usage. 1563 1564config PROVE_CXL_LOCKING 1565 bool "CXL" 1566 depends on CXL_BUS 1567 help 1568 Enable lockdep to validate cxl_device_lock() usage. 1569 1570endchoice 1571 1572endmenu # lock debugging 1573 1574config TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1575 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 1576 bool 1577 help 1578 Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for 1579 either tracing or lock debugging. 1580 1581config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI 1582 def_bool y 1583 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS 1584 depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT 1585 1586config DEBUG_IRQFLAGS 1587 bool "Debug IRQ flag manipulation" 1588 help 1589 Enables checks for potentially unsafe enabling or disabling of 1590 interrupts, such as calling raw_local_irq_restore() when interrupts 1591 are enabled. 1592 1593config STACKTRACE 1594 bool "Stack backtrace support" 1595 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1596 help 1597 This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for 1598 every process, showing its current stack trace. 1599 It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require 1600 stack trace generation. 1601 1602config WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM 1603 bool "Warn for all uses of unseeded randomness" 1604 default n 1605 help 1606 Some parts of the kernel contain bugs relating to their use of 1607 cryptographically secure random numbers before it's actually possible 1608 to generate those numbers securely. This setting ensures that these 1609 flaws don't go unnoticed, by enabling a message, should this ever 1610 occur. This will allow people with obscure setups to know when things 1611 are going wrong, so that they might contact developers about fixing 1612 it. 1613 1614 Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting 1615 a fully seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can 1616 result in dmesg getting spammed for a surprisingly long 1617 time. This is really bad from a security perspective, and 1618 so architecture maintainers really need to do what they can 1619 to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is booted. 1620 However, since users cannot do anything actionable to 1621 address this, by default this option is disabled. 1622 1623 Say Y here if you want to receive warnings for all uses of 1624 unseeded randomness. This will be of use primarily for 1625 those developers interested in improving the security of 1626 Linux kernels running on their architecture (or 1627 subarchitecture). 1628 1629config DEBUG_KOBJECT 1630 bool "kobject debugging" 1631 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1632 help 1633 If you say Y here, some extra kobject debugging messages will be sent 1634 to the syslog. 1635 1636config DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE 1637 bool "kobject release debugging" 1638 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS 1639 help 1640 kobjects are reference counted objects. This means that their 1641 last reference count put is not predictable, and the kobject can 1642 live on past the point at which a driver decides to drop it's 1643 initial reference to the kobject gained on allocation. An 1644 example of this would be a struct device which has just been 1645 unregistered. 1646 1647 However, some buggy drivers assume that after such an operation, 1648 the memory backing the kobject can be immediately freed. This 1649 goes completely against the principles of a refcounted object. 1650 1651 If you say Y here, the kernel will delay the release of kobjects 1652 on the last reference count to improve the visibility of this 1653 kind of kobject release bug. 1654 1655config HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE 1656 bool 1657 1658menu "Debug kernel data structures" 1659 1660config DEBUG_LIST 1661 bool "Debug linked list manipulation" 1662 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1663 help 1664 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list 1665 walking routines. 1666 1667 If unsure, say N. 1668 1669config DEBUG_PLIST 1670 bool "Debug priority linked list manipulation" 1671 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1672 help 1673 Enable this to turn on extended checks in the priority-ordered 1674 linked-list (plist) walking routines. This checks the entire 1675 list multiple times during each manipulation. 1676 1677 If unsure, say N. 1678 1679config DEBUG_SG 1680 bool "Debug SG table operations" 1681 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1682 help 1683 Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. This can 1684 help find problems with drivers that do not properly initialize 1685 their sg tables. 1686 1687 If unsure, say N. 1688 1689config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS 1690 bool "Debug notifier call chains" 1691 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1692 help 1693 Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. 1694 This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that 1695 modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. 1696 This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum 1697 performance, say N. 1698 1699config BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION 1700 bool "Trigger a BUG when data corruption is detected" 1701 select DEBUG_LIST 1702 help 1703 Select this option if the kernel should BUG when it encounters 1704 data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked 1705 for validity. 1706 1707 If unsure, say N. 1708 1709endmenu 1710 1711config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 1712 bool "Debug credential management" 1713 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1714 help 1715 Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential 1716 management. The additional code keeps track of the number of 1717 pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to 1718 see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred 1719 struct. 1720 1721 Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the 1722 security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. 1723 1724 If unsure, say N. 1725 1726source "kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug" 1727 1728config DEBUG_WQ_FORCE_RR_CPU 1729 bool "Force round-robin CPU selection for unbound work items" 1730 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1731 default n 1732 help 1733 Workqueue used to implicitly guarantee that work items queued 1734 without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. This 1735 guarantee is no longer true and while local CPU is still 1736 preferred work items may be put on foreign CPUs. Kernel 1737 parameter "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" is added to force 1738 round-robin CPU selection to flush out usages which depend on the 1739 now broken guarantee. This config option enables the debug 1740 feature by default. When enabled, memory and cache locality will 1741 be impacted. 1742 1743config CPU_HOTPLUG_STATE_CONTROL 1744 bool "Enable CPU hotplug state control" 1745 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1746 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU 1747 default n 1748 help 1749 Allows to write steps between "offline" and "online" to the CPUs 1750 sysfs target file so states can be stepped granular. This is a debug 1751 option for now as the hotplug machinery cannot be stopped and 1752 restarted at arbitrary points yet. 1753 1754 Say N if your are unsure. 1755 1756config LATENCYTOP 1757 bool "Latency measuring infrastructure" 1758 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1759 depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 1760 depends on PROC_FS 1761 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 1762 select KALLSYMS 1763 select KALLSYMS_ALL 1764 select STACKTRACE 1765 select SCHEDSTATS 1766 help 1767 Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool 1768 to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations. 1769 1770source "kernel/trace/Kconfig" 1771 1772config PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT 1773 bool "Remote debugging over FireWire early on boot" 1774 depends on PCI && X86 1775 help 1776 If you want to debug problems which hang or crash the kernel early 1777 on boot and the crashing machine has a FireWire port, you can use 1778 this feature to remotely access the memory of the crashed machine 1779 over FireWire. This employs remote DMA as part of the OHCI1394 1780 specification which is now the standard for FireWire controllers. 1781 1782 With remote DMA, you can monitor the printk buffer remotely using 1783 firescope and access all memory below 4GB using fireproxy from gdb. 1784 Even controlling a kernel debugger is possible using remote DMA. 1785 1786 Usage: 1787 1788 If ohci1394_dma=early is used as boot parameter, it will initialize 1789 all OHCI1394 controllers which are found in the PCI config space. 1790 1791 As all changes to the FireWire bus such as enabling and disabling 1792 devices cause a bus reset and thereby disable remote DMA for all 1793 devices, be sure to have the cable plugged and FireWire enabled on 1794 the debugging host before booting the debug target for debugging. 1795 1796 This code (~1k) is freed after boot. By then, the firewire stack 1797 in charge of the OHCI-1394 controllers should be used instead. 1798 1799 See Documentation/core-api/debugging-via-ohci1394.rst for more information. 1800 1801source "samples/Kconfig" 1802 1803config ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1804 bool 1805 1806config STRICT_DEVMEM 1807 bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" 1808 depends on MMU && DEVMEM 1809 depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED 1810 default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 1811 help 1812 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1813 of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental 1814 access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can 1815 be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support 1816 enabled, even in this case there are restrictions on /dev/mem 1817 use due to the cache aliasing requirements. 1818 1819 If this option is switched on, and IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n, the /dev/mem 1820 file only allows userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and 1821 data regions. This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common 1822 users of /dev/mem. 1823 1824 If in doubt, say Y. 1825 1826config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM 1827 bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" 1828 depends on STRICT_DEVMEM 1829 help 1830 If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all 1831 io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that 1832 range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but 1833 specific access can be used by people debugging kernel drivers. 1834 1835 If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows 1836 userspace access to *idle* io-memory ranges (see /proc/iomem) This 1837 may break traditional users of /dev/mem (dosemu, legacy X, etc...) 1838 if the driver using a given range cannot be disabled. 1839 1840 If in doubt, say Y. 1841 1842menu "$(SRCARCH) Debugging" 1843 1844source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig.debug" 1845 1846endmenu 1847 1848menu "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 1849 1850source "lib/kunit/Kconfig" 1851 1852config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1853 tristate "Notifier error injection" 1854 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1855 select DEBUG_FS 1856 help 1857 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1858 specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error 1859 handling of notifier call chain failures. 1860 1861 Say N if unsure. 1862 1863config PM_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1864 tristate "PM notifier error injection module" 1865 depends on PM && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1866 default m if PM_DEBUG 1867 help 1868 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1869 PM notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1870 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm 1871 1872 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1873 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1874 1875 Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM) 1876 1877 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/ 1878 # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error 1879 # echo mem > /sys/power/state 1880 bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory 1881 1882 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1883 be called pm-notifier-error-inject. 1884 1885 If unsure, say N. 1886 1887config OF_RECONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1888 tristate "OF reconfig notifier error injection module" 1889 depends on OF_DYNAMIC && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1890 help 1891 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1892 OF reconfig notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled 1893 through debugfs interface under 1894 /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/OF-reconfig/ 1895 1896 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1897 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1898 1899 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1900 be called of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject. 1901 1902 If unsure, say N. 1903 1904config NETDEV_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT 1905 tristate "Netdev notifier error injection module" 1906 depends on NET && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION 1907 help 1908 This option provides the ability to inject artificial errors to 1909 netdevice notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through debugfs 1910 interface /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1911 1912 If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events 1913 notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". 1914 1915 Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 = -EINVAL) 1916 1917 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev 1918 # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error 1919 # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024 1920 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument 1921 1922 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will 1923 be called netdev-notifier-error-inject. 1924 1925 If unsure, say N. 1926 1927config FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1928 def_bool y 1929 depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION && KPROBES 1930 1931config FAULT_INJECTION 1932 bool "Fault-injection framework" 1933 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 1934 help 1935 Provide fault-injection framework. 1936 For more details, see Documentation/fault-injection/. 1937 1938config FAILSLAB 1939 bool "Fault-injection capability for kmalloc" 1940 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1941 depends on SLAB || SLUB 1942 help 1943 Provide fault-injection capability for kmalloc. 1944 1945config FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC 1946 bool "Fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()" 1947 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1948 help 1949 Provide fault-injection capability for alloc_pages(). 1950 1951config FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY 1952 bool "Fault injection capability for usercopy functions" 1953 depends on FAULT_INJECTION 1954 help 1955 Provides fault-injection capability to inject failures 1956 in usercopy functions (copy_from_user(), get_user(), ...). 1957 1958config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST 1959 bool "Fault-injection capability for disk IO" 1960 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1961 help 1962 Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO. 1963 1964config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT 1965 bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts" 1966 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK 1967 help 1968 Provide fault-injection capability on end IO handling. This 1969 will make the block layer "forget" an interrupt as configured, 1970 thus exercising the error handling. 1971 1972 Only works with drivers that use the generic timeout handling, 1973 for others it won't do anything. 1974 1975config FAIL_FUTEX 1976 bool "Fault-injection capability for futexes" 1977 select DEBUG_FS 1978 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && FUTEX 1979 help 1980 Provide fault-injection capability for futexes. 1981 1982config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS 1983 bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities" 1984 depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS && DEBUG_FS 1985 help 1986 Enable configuration of fault-injection capabilities via debugfs. 1987 1988config FAIL_FUNCTION 1989 bool "Fault-injection capability for functions" 1990 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION 1991 help 1992 Provide function-based fault-injection capability. 1993 This will allow you to override a specific function with a return 1994 with given return value. As a result, function caller will see 1995 an error value and have to handle it. This is useful to test the 1996 error handling in various subsystems. 1997 1998config FAIL_MMC_REQUEST 1999 bool "Fault-injection capability for MMC IO" 2000 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && MMC 2001 help 2002 Provide fault-injection capability for MMC IO. 2003 This will make the mmc core return data errors. This is 2004 useful to test the error handling in the mmc block device 2005 and to test how the mmc host driver handles retries from 2006 the block device. 2007 2008config FAIL_SUNRPC 2009 bool "Fault-injection capability for SunRPC" 2010 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && SUNRPC_DEBUG 2011 help 2012 Provide fault-injection capability for SunRPC and 2013 its consumers. 2014 2015config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER 2016 bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities" 2017 depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2018 depends on !X86_64 2019 select STACKTRACE 2020 depends on FRAME_POINTER || MIPS || PPC || S390 || MICROBLAZE || ARM || ARC || X86 2021 help 2022 Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities 2023 2024config ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2025 bool 2026 help 2027 An architecture should select this when it can successfully 2028 build and run with CONFIG_KCOV. This typically requires 2029 disabling instrumentation for some early boot code. 2030 2031config CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2032 def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc) 2033 2034 2035config KCOV 2036 bool "Code coverage for fuzzing" 2037 depends on ARCH_HAS_KCOV 2038 depends on CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC || GCC_PLUGINS 2039 depends on !ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR || HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK || \ 2040 GCC_VERSION >= 120000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000 2041 select DEBUG_FS 2042 select GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV if !CC_HAS_SANCOV_TRACE_PC 2043 select OBJTOOL if HAVE_NOINSTR_HACK 2044 help 2045 KCOV exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable 2046 for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). 2047 2048 If RANDOMIZE_BASE is enabled, PC values will not be stable across 2049 different machines and across reboots. If you need stable PC values, 2050 disable RANDOMIZE_BASE. 2051 2052 For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst. 2053 2054config KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS 2055 bool "Enable comparison operands collection by KCOV" 2056 depends on KCOV 2057 depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize-coverage=trace-cmp) 2058 help 2059 KCOV also exposes operands of every comparison in the instrumented 2060 code along with operand sizes and PCs of the comparison instructions. 2061 These operands can be used by fuzzing engines to improve the quality 2062 of fuzzing coverage. 2063 2064config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2065 bool "Instrument all code by default" 2066 depends on KCOV 2067 default y 2068 help 2069 If you are doing generic system call fuzzing (like e.g. syzkaller), 2070 then you will want to instrument the whole kernel and you should 2071 say y here. If you are doing more targeted fuzzing (like e.g. 2072 filesystem fuzzing with AFL) then you will want to enable coverage 2073 for more specific subsets of files, and should say n here. 2074 2075config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE 2076 hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words" 2077 depends on KCOV 2078 default 0x40000 2079 help 2080 KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from 2081 soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the 2082 number of unsigned long words. 2083 2084menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2085 bool "Runtime Testing" 2086 def_bool y 2087 2088if RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2089 2090config LKDTM 2091 tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module" 2092 depends on DEBUG_FS 2093 help 2094 This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by 2095 inducing system failures at predefined crash points. 2096 If you don't need it: say N 2097 Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be 2098 called lkdtm. 2099 2100 Documentation on how to use the module can be found in 2101 Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.rst 2102 2103config TEST_LIST_SORT 2104 tristate "Linked list sorting test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2105 depends on KUNIT 2106 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2107 help 2108 Enable this to turn on 'list_sort()' function test. This test is 2109 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2110 or at module load time. 2111 2112 If unsure, say N. 2113 2114config TEST_MIN_HEAP 2115 tristate "Min heap test" 2116 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2117 help 2118 Enable this to turn on min heap function tests. This test is 2119 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2120 or at module load time. 2121 2122 If unsure, say N. 2123 2124config TEST_SORT 2125 tristate "Array-based sort test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2126 depends on KUNIT 2127 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2128 help 2129 This option enables the self-test function of 'sort()' at boot, 2130 or at module load time. 2131 2132 If unsure, say N. 2133 2134config TEST_DIV64 2135 tristate "64bit/32bit division and modulo test" 2136 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2137 help 2138 Enable this to turn on 'do_div()' function test. This test is 2139 executed only once during system boot (so affects only boot time), 2140 or at module load time. 2141 2142 If unsure, say N. 2143 2144config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST 2145 tristate "Kprobes sanity tests" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2146 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2147 depends on KPROBES 2148 depends on KUNIT 2149 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2150 help 2151 This option provides for testing basic kprobes functionality on 2152 boot. Samples of kprobe and kretprobe are inserted and 2153 verified for functionality. 2154 2155 Say N if you are unsure. 2156 2157config FPROBE_SANITY_TEST 2158 bool "Self test for fprobe" 2159 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2160 depends on FPROBE 2161 depends on KUNIT=y 2162 help 2163 This option will enable testing the fprobe when the system boot. 2164 A series of tests are made to verify that the fprobe is functioning 2165 properly. 2166 2167 Say N if you are unsure. 2168 2169config BACKTRACE_SELF_TEST 2170 tristate "Self test for the backtrace code" 2171 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2172 help 2173 This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test 2174 the kernel stack backtrace code. This option is not useful 2175 for distributions or general kernels, but only for kernel 2176 developers working on architecture code. 2177 2178 Note that if you want to also test saved backtraces, you will 2179 have to enable STACKTRACE as well. 2180 2181 Say N if you are unsure. 2182 2183config TEST_REF_TRACKER 2184 tristate "Self test for reference tracker" 2185 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT 2186 select REF_TRACKER 2187 help 2188 This option provides a kernel module performing tests 2189 using reference tracker infrastructure. 2190 2191 Say N if you are unsure. 2192 2193config RBTREE_TEST 2194 tristate "Red-Black tree test" 2195 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2196 help 2197 A benchmark measuring the performance of the rbtree library. 2198 Also includes rbtree invariant checks. 2199 2200config REED_SOLOMON_TEST 2201 tristate "Reed-Solomon library test" 2202 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m 2203 select REED_SOLOMON 2204 select REED_SOLOMON_ENC16 2205 select REED_SOLOMON_DEC16 2206 help 2207 This option enables the self-test function of rslib at boot, 2208 or at module load time. 2209 2210 If unsure, say N. 2211 2212config INTERVAL_TREE_TEST 2213 tristate "Interval tree test" 2214 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL 2215 select INTERVAL_TREE 2216 help 2217 A benchmark measuring the performance of the interval tree library 2218 2219config PERCPU_TEST 2220 tristate "Per cpu operations test" 2221 depends on m && DEBUG_KERNEL 2222 help 2223 Enable this option to build test module which validates per-cpu 2224 operations. 2225 2226 If unsure, say N. 2227 2228config ATOMIC64_SELFTEST 2229 tristate "Perform an atomic64_t self-test" 2230 help 2231 Enable this option to test the atomic64_t functions at boot or 2232 at module load time. 2233 2234 If unsure, say N. 2235 2236config ASYNC_RAID6_TEST 2237 tristate "Self test for hardware accelerated raid6 recovery" 2238 depends on ASYNC_RAID6_RECOV 2239 select ASYNC_MEMCPY 2240 help 2241 This is a one-shot self test that permutes through the 2242 recovery of all the possible two disk failure scenarios for a 2243 N-disk array. Recovery is performed with the asynchronous 2244 raid6 recovery routines, and will optionally use an offload 2245 engine if one is available. 2246 2247 If unsure, say N. 2248 2249config TEST_HEXDUMP 2250 tristate "Test functions located in the hexdump module at runtime" 2251 2252config STRING_SELFTEST 2253 tristate "Test string functions at runtime" 2254 2255config TEST_STRING_HELPERS 2256 tristate "Test functions located in the string_helpers module at runtime" 2257 2258config TEST_STRSCPY 2259 tristate "Test strscpy*() family of functions at runtime" 2260 2261config TEST_KSTRTOX 2262 tristate "Test kstrto*() family of functions at runtime" 2263 2264config TEST_PRINTF 2265 tristate "Test printf() family of functions at runtime" 2266 2267config TEST_SCANF 2268 tristate "Test scanf() family of functions at runtime" 2269 2270config TEST_BITMAP 2271 tristate "Test bitmap_*() family of functions at runtime" 2272 help 2273 Enable this option to test the bitmap functions at boot. 2274 2275 If unsure, say N. 2276 2277config TEST_UUID 2278 tristate "Test functions located in the uuid module at runtime" 2279 2280config TEST_XARRAY 2281 tristate "Test the XArray code at runtime" 2282 2283config TEST_RHASHTABLE 2284 tristate "Perform selftest on resizable hash table" 2285 help 2286 Enable this option to test the rhashtable functions at boot. 2287 2288 If unsure, say N. 2289 2290config TEST_SIPHASH 2291 tristate "Perform selftest on siphash functions" 2292 help 2293 Enable this option to test the kernel's siphash (<linux/siphash.h>) hash 2294 functions on boot (or module load). 2295 2296 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2297 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2298 2299config TEST_IDA 2300 tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" 2301 2302config TEST_PARMAN 2303 tristate "Perform selftest on priority array manager" 2304 depends on PARMAN 2305 help 2306 Enable this option to test priority array manager on boot 2307 (or module load). 2308 2309 If unsure, say N. 2310 2311config TEST_IRQ_TIMINGS 2312 bool "IRQ timings selftest" 2313 depends on IRQ_TIMINGS 2314 help 2315 Enable this option to test the irq timings code on boot. 2316 2317 If unsure, say N. 2318 2319config TEST_LKM 2320 tristate "Test module loading with 'hello world' module" 2321 depends on m 2322 help 2323 This builds the "test_module" module that emits "Hello, world" 2324 on printk when loaded. It is designed to be used for basic 2325 evaluation of the module loading subsystem (for example when 2326 validating module verification). It lacks any extra dependencies, 2327 and will not normally be loaded by the system unless explicitly 2328 requested by name. 2329 2330 If unsure, say N. 2331 2332config TEST_BITOPS 2333 tristate "Test module for compilation of bitops operations" 2334 depends on m 2335 help 2336 This builds the "test_bitops" module that is much like the 2337 TEST_LKM module except that it does a basic exercise of the 2338 set/clear_bit macros and get_count_order/long to make sure there are 2339 no compiler warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra 2340 compilations. It has no dependencies and doesn't run or load unless 2341 explicitly requested by name. for example: modprobe test_bitops. 2342 2343 If unsure, say N. 2344 2345config TEST_VMALLOC 2346 tristate "Test module for stress/performance analysis of vmalloc allocator" 2347 default n 2348 depends on MMU 2349 depends on m 2350 help 2351 This builds the "test_vmalloc" module that should be used for 2352 stress and performance analysis. So, any new change for vmalloc 2353 subsystem can be evaluated from performance and stability point 2354 of view. 2355 2356 If unsure, say N. 2357 2358config TEST_USER_COPY 2359 tristate "Test user/kernel boundary protections" 2360 depends on m 2361 help 2362 This builds the "test_user_copy" module that runs sanity checks 2363 on the copy_to/from_user infrastructure, making sure basic 2364 user/kernel boundary testing is working. If it fails to load, 2365 a regression has been detected in the user/kernel memory boundary 2366 protections. 2367 2368 If unsure, say N. 2369 2370config TEST_BPF 2371 tristate "Test BPF filter functionality" 2372 depends on m && NET 2373 help 2374 This builds the "test_bpf" module that runs various test vectors 2375 against the BPF interpreter or BPF JIT compiler depending on the 2376 current setting. This is in particular useful for BPF JIT compiler 2377 development, but also to run regression tests against changes in 2378 the interpreter code. It also enables test stubs for eBPF maps and 2379 verifier used by user space verifier testsuite. 2380 2381 If unsure, say N. 2382 2383config TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV 2384 tristate "Test blackhole netdev functionality" 2385 depends on m && NET 2386 help 2387 This builds the "test_blackhole_dev" module that validates the 2388 data path through this blackhole netdev. 2389 2390 If unsure, say N. 2391 2392config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK 2393 tristate "Test find_bit functions" 2394 help 2395 This builds the "test_find_bit" module that measure find_*_bit() 2396 functions performance. 2397 2398 If unsure, say N. 2399 2400config TEST_FIRMWARE 2401 tristate "Test firmware loading via userspace interface" 2402 depends on FW_LOADER 2403 help 2404 This builds the "test_firmware" module that creates a userspace 2405 interface for testing firmware loading. This can be used to 2406 control the triggering of firmware loading without needing an 2407 actual firmware-using device. The contents can be rechecked by 2408 userspace. 2409 2410 If unsure, say N. 2411 2412config TEST_SYSCTL 2413 tristate "sysctl test driver" 2414 depends on PROC_SYSCTL 2415 help 2416 This builds the "test_sysctl" module. This driver enables to test the 2417 proc sysctl interfaces available to drivers safely without affecting 2418 production knobs which might alter system functionality. 2419 2420 If unsure, say N. 2421 2422config BITFIELD_KUNIT 2423 tristate "KUnit test bitfield functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2424 depends on KUNIT 2425 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2426 help 2427 Enable this option to test the bitfield functions at boot. 2428 2429 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2430 in TAP format (http://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2431 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2432 production build. 2433 2434 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2435 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2436 2437 If unsure, say N. 2438 2439config HASH_KUNIT_TEST 2440 tristate "KUnit Test for integer hash functions" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2441 depends on KUNIT 2442 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2443 help 2444 Enable this option to test the kernel's string (<linux/stringhash.h>), and 2445 integer (<linux/hash.h>) hash functions on boot. 2446 2447 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2448 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2449 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2450 production build. 2451 2452 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2453 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2454 2455 This is intended to help people writing architecture-specific 2456 optimized versions. If unsure, say N. 2457 2458config RESOURCE_KUNIT_TEST 2459 tristate "KUnit test for resource API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2460 depends on KUNIT 2461 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2462 help 2463 This builds the resource API unit test. 2464 Tests the logic of API provided by resource.c and ioport.h. 2465 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2466 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2467 2468 If unsure, say N. 2469 2470config SYSCTL_KUNIT_TEST 2471 tristate "KUnit test for sysctl" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2472 depends on KUNIT 2473 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2474 help 2475 This builds the proc sysctl unit test, which runs on boot. 2476 Tests the API contract and implementation correctness of sysctl. 2477 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2478 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2479 2480 If unsure, say N. 2481 2482config LIST_KUNIT_TEST 2483 tristate "KUnit Test for Kernel Linked-list structures" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2484 depends on KUNIT 2485 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2486 help 2487 This builds the linked list KUnit test suite. 2488 It tests that the API and basic functionality of the list_head type 2489 and associated macros. 2490 2491 KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log 2492 in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs 2493 running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a 2494 production build. 2495 2496 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2497 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2498 2499 If unsure, say N. 2500 2501config LINEAR_RANGES_TEST 2502 tristate "KUnit test for linear_ranges" 2503 depends on KUNIT 2504 select LINEAR_RANGES 2505 help 2506 This builds the linear_ranges unit test, which runs on boot. 2507 Tests the linear_ranges logic correctness. 2508 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2509 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2510 2511 If unsure, say N. 2512 2513config CMDLINE_KUNIT_TEST 2514 tristate "KUnit test for cmdline API" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2515 depends on KUNIT 2516 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2517 help 2518 This builds the cmdline API unit test. 2519 Tests the logic of API provided by cmdline.c. 2520 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2521 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2522 2523 If unsure, say N. 2524 2525config BITS_TEST 2526 tristate "KUnit test for bits.h" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2527 depends on KUNIT 2528 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2529 help 2530 This builds the bits unit test. 2531 Tests the logic of macros defined in bits.h. 2532 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2533 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2534 2535 If unsure, say N. 2536 2537config SLUB_KUNIT_TEST 2538 tristate "KUnit test for SLUB cache error detection" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2539 depends on SLUB_DEBUG && KUNIT 2540 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2541 help 2542 This builds SLUB allocator unit test. 2543 Tests SLUB cache debugging functionality. 2544 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2545 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2546 2547 If unsure, say N. 2548 2549config RATIONAL_KUNIT_TEST 2550 tristate "KUnit test for rational.c" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2551 depends on KUNIT && RATIONAL 2552 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2553 help 2554 This builds the rational math unit test. 2555 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2556 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2557 2558 If unsure, say N. 2559 2560config MEMCPY_KUNIT_TEST 2561 tristate "Test memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2562 depends on KUNIT 2563 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2564 help 2565 Builds unit tests for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() functions. 2566 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2567 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2568 2569 If unsure, say N. 2570 2571config OVERFLOW_KUNIT_TEST 2572 tristate "Test check_*_overflow() functions at runtime" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2573 depends on KUNIT 2574 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2575 help 2576 Builds unit tests for the check_*_overflow(), size_*(), allocation, and 2577 related functions. 2578 2579 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer 2580 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. 2581 2582 If unsure, say N. 2583 2584config STACKINIT_KUNIT_TEST 2585 tristate "Test level of stack variable initialization" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2586 depends on KUNIT 2587 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS 2588 help 2589 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing stack variables and 2590 padding. Coverage is controlled by compiler flags, 2591 CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO, 2592 CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF, 2593 or CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL. 2594 2595config TEST_UDELAY 2596 tristate "udelay test driver" 2597 help 2598 This builds the "udelay_test" module that helps to make sure 2599 that udelay() is working properly. 2600 2601 If unsure, say N. 2602 2603config TEST_STATIC_KEYS 2604 tristate "Test static keys" 2605 depends on m 2606 help 2607 Test the static key interfaces. 2608 2609 If unsure, say N. 2610 2611config TEST_KMOD 2612 tristate "kmod stress tester" 2613 depends on m 2614 depends on NETDEVICES && NET_CORE && INET # for TUN 2615 depends on BLOCK 2616 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB # for BTRFS 2617 select TEST_LKM 2618 select XFS_FS 2619 select TUN 2620 select BTRFS_FS 2621 help 2622 Test the kernel's module loading mechanism: kmod. kmod implements 2623 support to load modules using the Linux kernel's usermode helper. 2624 This test provides a series of tests against kmod. 2625 2626 Although technically you can either build test_kmod as a module or 2627 into the kernel we disallow building it into the kernel since 2628 it stress tests request_module() and this will very likely cause 2629 some issues by taking over precious threads available from other 2630 module load requests, ultimately this could be fatal. 2631 2632 To run tests run: 2633 2634 tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help 2635 2636 If unsure, say N. 2637 2638config TEST_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2639 tristate "Test CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL feature" 2640 depends on DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2641 help 2642 Test the kernel's ability to detect incorrect calls to 2643 virt_to_phys() done against the non-linear part of the 2644 kernel's virtual address map. 2645 2646 If unsure, say N. 2647 2648config TEST_MEMCAT_P 2649 tristate "Test memcat_p() helper function" 2650 help 2651 Test the memcat_p() helper for correctly merging two 2652 pointer arrays together. 2653 2654 If unsure, say N. 2655 2656config TEST_LIVEPATCH 2657 tristate "Test livepatching" 2658 default n 2659 depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG 2660 depends on LIVEPATCH 2661 depends on m 2662 help 2663 Test kernel livepatching features for correctness. The tests will 2664 load test modules that will be livepatched in various scenarios. 2665 2666 To run all the livepatching tests: 2667 2668 make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=livepatch run_tests 2669 2670 Alternatively, individual tests may be invoked: 2671 2672 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-callbacks.sh 2673 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-livepatch.sh 2674 tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh 2675 2676 If unsure, say N. 2677 2678config TEST_OBJAGG 2679 tristate "Perform selftest on object aggreration manager" 2680 default n 2681 depends on OBJAGG 2682 help 2683 Enable this option to test object aggregation manager on boot 2684 (or module load). 2685 2686config TEST_MEMINIT 2687 tristate "Test heap/page initialization" 2688 help 2689 Test if the kernel is zero-initializing heap and page allocations. 2690 This can be useful to test init_on_alloc and init_on_free features. 2691 2692 If unsure, say N. 2693 2694config TEST_HMM 2695 tristate "Test HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)" 2696 depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE 2697 depends on DEVICE_PRIVATE 2698 select HMM_MIRROR 2699 select MMU_NOTIFIER 2700 help 2701 This is a pseudo device driver solely for testing HMM. 2702 Say M here if you want to build the HMM test module. 2703 Doing so will allow you to run tools/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests. 2704 2705 If unsure, say N. 2706 2707config TEST_FREE_PAGES 2708 tristate "Test freeing pages" 2709 help 2710 Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between 2711 freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. 2712 Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. 2713 If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and 2714 probably OOM your system. 2715 2716config TEST_FPU 2717 tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" 2718 depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL 2719 help 2720 Enable this option to add /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu 2721 which will trigger a sequence of floating point operations. This is used 2722 for self-testing floating point control register setting in 2723 kernel_fpu_begin(). 2724 2725 If unsure, say N. 2726 2727config TEST_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2728 tristate "Test clocksource watchdog in kernel space" 2729 depends on CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG 2730 help 2731 Enable this option to create a kernel module that will trigger 2732 a test of the clocksource watchdog. This module may be loaded 2733 via modprobe or insmod in which case it will run upon being 2734 loaded, or it may be built in, in which case it will run 2735 shortly after boot. 2736 2737 If unsure, say N. 2738 2739endif # RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2740 2741config ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2742 bool 2743 help 2744 An architecture should select this when it uses early_memtest() 2745 during boot process. 2746 2747config MEMTEST 2748 bool "Memtest" 2749 depends on ARCH_USE_MEMTEST 2750 help 2751 This option adds a kernel parameter 'memtest', which allows memtest 2752 to be set and executed. 2753 memtest=0, mean disabled; -- default 2754 memtest=1, mean do 1 test pattern; 2755 ... 2756 memtest=17, mean do 17 test patterns. 2757 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 2758 2759 2760 2761config HYPERV_TESTING 2762 bool "Microsoft Hyper-V driver testing" 2763 default n 2764 depends on HYPERV && DEBUG_FS 2765 help 2766 Select this option to enable Hyper-V vmbus testing. 2767 2768endmenu # "Kernel Testing and Coverage" 2769 2770source "Documentation/Kconfig" 2771 2772endmenu # Kernel hacking 2773